aiux weekly OCT 5–11 · 5 STORIES AI States and Agent Status THIS WEEK'S STORIES A AI/UX Playground · Oct 5 A checklist of 8 states every AI feature must handle before shipping DESIGNER'S TAKEAWAY Run your current AI feature against all eight states and ship a designed response for any state that currently shows a generic spinner or nothing. Source → PATTERNError Recovery & Graceful Degradation → NNGroup / Claude · Oct 9 NNGroup: Power users struggle to find and manage their AI context files DESIGNER'S TAKEAWAY Add a dedicated, findable context panel so users can inspect and edit what the agent knows about them. Source → PATTERNSelective Memory → Cursor (rogue agent incident) · Oct 8 A 'rogue' AI agent went haywire at a real tech company DESIGNER'S TAKEAWAY Add a visible abort control and a confirmation step before any agent takes an irreversible action. Source → PATTERNHuman-in-the-Loop → L LukeW · Oct 5 LukeW outlines the views designers need to show what agents are planning and doing DESIGNER'S TAKEAWAY Audit your agent UI against his view types and add the oversight mode your current design is missing. Source → PATTERNAgent Status & Monitoring → G Granola · Oct 8 Granola's missing test mode breaks trust before the first real meeting DESIGNER'S TAKEAWAY Add a one-time test mode that shows live output before users commit real data to your AI feature. Source → PATTERNSafe Exploration → THIS WEEK'S IDEA Users need to see agents before they trust them Every story this week shows users flying blind: invisible context, absent abort controls, no test mode, no status view. Pick one oversight gap in your current agent flow and design a visible control for it this sprint. PATTERNHuman-in-the-Loop → Turn your design into Claude skills Drop a screenshot, see which of the 38 patterns you are missing. Free, no signup for the first audit. Get your design skills → Was this issue worth your time? Yes, genuinely useful Skimmed it, some value Not really
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